| Term | Explanation |
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| ABS | Acoustic Backscatter Sensor |
| ADCP | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
| ADP | Acoustic Doppler Profiler |
| ADV | Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter |
| AP | Aquadop Acoustic Profiler |
| BASS | Benthic Acoustic Stress Sensor |
| BBV | Best Basic Version |
| CTD | Conductivity Temperature Depth Profiler |
| CMGP | Coastal and Marine Geology Program |
| CT | Conductivity, Temperature Sensor |
| EPIC | Equatorial Pacific Information Collection. Data storage, retrieval, and management formats and tool originated and maintained by NOAA (see www.pmel.noaa.gov/epic/). |
| FLASH RAM | A type of constantly-powered nonvolatile memory that can be erased and reprogrammed in units of memory called blocks. |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GCMD | Global Change Master Directory |
| GOS | Geospatial One-Stop |
| gridFTP | File Transfer Protocol for grid computing |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| IDL | Interactive Data Language |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode |
| LISST | Laser In-Situ Suspended Scattering and Transmissometry |
| mab, hab | Meters above bottom, height above bottom (m) |
| MATLAB® | Software created by The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, Mass. (see www.mathworks.com) |
| MAVS | Modular Acoustic Velocity Sensor |
| MC | MicroCat- an instrument made by Sea-Bird for time-series measurements of temperature and salinity (see www.seabird.com) |
| NDBC | National Data Buoy Center; part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (see www.ndbc.noaa.gov) |
| NetCDF | Network Common Data Form--A data format and library of data access subroutines maintained by Unidata (see www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf) |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (see www.noaa.gov)
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| NOS | National Ocean Service (see www.nos.noaa.gov) |
| OBS | Optical Backscatter Sensor |
| OPeNDAP | Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol |
| Paros | Paroscientific, Inc. (see www.paroscientific.com) |
| PCADP | Pulse-Coherent Acoustic Doppler Profiler |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association--A credit-card-sized memory card for laptop computers |
| PMEL | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (see www.pmel.noaa.gov) |
| (T)RDI | (Teledyne) RD Instruments (see www.rdinstruments.com) |
| SC | SEACAT- an instrument made by Sea-Bird for time-series measurements of temperature and salinity (see www.seabird.com) |
| UCAR | University Center for Atmospheric Research |
| VACM | Vector Averaging Current Meter |
| VMCM | Vector Measuring Current Meter |
| WHSC | Woods Hole Science Center |
